Ahead of speaker election, Christie campaigns hard against Congress

Campaigning in New Hampshire this week, Governor Chris Christie refused to commit to any particular candidate ahead of Thursday’s 10:00 a.m. speaker election to replace John Boehner. Here’sa nice little overview on the process if you’re interested.

“No, I don’t have a dream candidate for Speaker. What I have is a dream for what Congress could actually be which is actually a responsive body that actually gets something done,” Christie told reporters. “That would be a dream. And what they’re doing right now down there is a nightmare. And so I don’t care who the Speaker is, I really don’t, Claude, it doesn’t matter to me. It don’t care who the Senate Majority leader is, I don’t care who the parliamentarian is, I don’t care about any of those guys, ok? Just do something, reform the tax system, repeal and replace Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood. Do something. Do something worthy of the position you’ve had. That’s what I want them to do. And whoever is the person who can do that as Speaker? That’s who I’m for.”

What’s more interesting is how the Governor is lapsing back into the “I’m a better manager who can get stuff done” theme, one which I’m not sure plays in a year when experience seems to be more of an anchor than a propellant? We’ll know soon enough.

For the sake of the country having a functioning govt hopefully Paul Ryan…if not him this is a total train wreck……another good step would be to get rid of the Hastert rule and let the House function the way is was meant to

You mean “for the sake of a functioning Big Government,” dontcha, Bobbo?

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